MedPage Today (4/17, Monaco) reports, “Based on over a quarter of a million patients, those who kept more than half of their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) measures under 9% saw a significantly lower risk for dementia compared with those who had the majority of measurements over this threshold,” investigators concluded in findings published online in JAMA Neurology. The study revealed that “patients who had more than half of HbA1c measures between 9% to just under 10% saw a 31% increased risk for dementia than those with less than half of their measures in this range.” Meanwhile, patients “who had more than half of their HbA1c readings over 10% had a 74% higher risk for dementia than those with less than half of their measures in this category.”
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